Noida / Ghaziabad: The upper government has allowed a restaurant to open for dinner, but the battle to stay far from above.
While most restaurants and pubs still count their losses from two locking in the past year, a handful of them – around 30 – must be closed in the city.
Market observer has rang alarm bells, estimating that more than 80% of restaurants may have to get out of business if there is another lock.
Not only restrictions on timings or the number of visitors permitted at a time, rental high, routine operational costs, lack of staff and difficulties in obtaining raw materials is several other smelting factors that have hit the restaurant business hard.
Arpan Gupta, Owner ofcheenos, Resobar in Sector 18, has closed two of the three restaurants he has.
“Pandemic will continue, and it is clearly impossible for restaurants to support for more than two years without profit.
Next year, even those who have succeeded in surviving until now will most likely be turned off.
Industry can only live back when the pandemic is fully over .
It may be a kind of rebirth, but the economy will be very different and there will be many reluctance in large investments, “Gupta said.
Gupta has not only closed down Cheena – which has been operating in Noida for a decade – but also Detroit at Connaught Place in Delhi.
The only restaurant he runs now is Anglo in Khan Market, which is the smallest of the three companies.
Anuj Mittal, the owner of the Paprika Park and Drunken Detective in the center of Indirapuram Habitat, said, “My business suffered a big loss in two locking.
Out of staff 60, I had to release 53 of them.
I have taken a loan to pay bills and other contributions.
Restaurants And the restaurant still causes losses because of operational timings.
around 500 hotel staff have lost their jobs at IHC themselves and revival still looks bleak.
“Even though home delivery is permitted during locking, they are hardly financially feasible.
“We don’t see the business revive in the near future.
People are afraid of stepping out after the second wave, when too many patients die.
For restaurants, 90% of the business comes from Dine-in.
Post-covid, this has reduced a lot,” said Varun Khera, Head of Chapter of Noida from the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI).
Khera added that apart from high rent and license fees, the restaurant industry also did not see a lot of government support.
“It is a great concern if you have managed to pay rent, but the business is closed.
It makes no sense now for most restaurants remain open because customers are very few in Dine-in.
In Gip Mall itself, more than 18 restaurants.
Has been closed,” said Vivek Dixit, the owner of Ali Baba’s cave on the Gip Mall which blew the window after the first kuncian.
Dixit explained that the cost of running a small or medium restaurant can be anything Rs 10-20 lakh a month.
Vikas Singh, the owner of Bercos and Pind Baluchi in the center of Habitat Indirapuram, said that “the hospitality sector has been hit by the most difficult by locking.
This sector is traditionally provided for a large number of employees, but when the owner struggles to survive their own life.
They cannot maintain The old staff.
“Singh said the National Restaurant Association had written to the state government, urged him to allow the restaurant to remain open until 11pm on weekdays.
It is also interesting for the government to eliminate the field of weekend.
What also helped install the loss of the restaurant was the appearance of the cloud kitchen.
“For restaurants, shipping has never been a big part of the business.
However, with many kitchen clouds coming, there are more shares in PAI.
Although this is not good for dinner companies, it is good news for smaller customers and smaller entrepreneurs, “Varun Khera said.
(With input from Aditya Dev)